Samuel Adams Nitro IPA

Nitro IPA

 

Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸

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Score
6.30
ABV: 7.5% IBU: 100 Ticks: 31
BOLD HOP BITTERNESS AND SURPRISINGLY SMOOTHBold Hop Bitterness and Surpisingly – a cap of nitro creamy mouthfeel reveals a brawny hop intensity and character beneath it with notes of resinous pine and citrus for a flavorful, lingering finish.

Brewed with six different hops including Zeus, Polaris, Galaxy, Amarillo, Centennial and Simcoe. 7.5% ABV
 

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5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Can. Ok, if you want to enjoy this beer, you have to kill it in one gulp. It tastes great when the nitro action is going on. When that goes away the beer is not so good. Anyway, glad I tried it but won’t again.

Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:12


8

Yummy smooth

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:27


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sample at SBWF 2016. Amber with a firm head. Aroma and taste of hops, caramel, grapefruit and some cookies. The body was medium as was the bitterness.

Tried on 10 Oct 2016 at 10:58


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5

Can sample at a tasting at Max’s place. Thanks avrashi. Golden. Stale hops aroma. Flavor has a bit of sweetish malt, and bitter stale hops. Medium-bodied. Not fresh enough.

Tried from Can on 26 Aug 2016 at 07:00


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

15 ounce can, 3/5/16. Clear amber, large dense creamy off-white head. Good retention. Aroma of floral hops, toasted malt, bits of citrus. The taste is citrus, herbal, green hops, toasted malt. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.

Tried from Can on 21 Aug 2016 at 20:55


5.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6

Rich copper and amber coloured body with a nice smooth, three centimetre tall pale slightly off-white head (nitrogen, duh) and not much movement at all noticeable. Aroma of some very subtle nuts, earth and a tiny bit of more nutty and caramel coupled with some english hops. Aftertaste shows some subtle hops, but mostly a smooth earthy and nutty maltiness and very little else. Overall, a decent enough beer, but not enough hops to be called an IPA and more of an english vibe from the malt to the hops, plus the nitrogen make this more of a ’pub’ beer, with double the typical alcohol than anything else. Nice to try, but this wasn’t a great beer. I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased from Giant Food in Falls Church, Virginia on 16-June-2016 for US$1,99 sampled at home in Washington on the 4th of July 2016 in celebration of Independence Day, watching the fireworks over this fine city.

Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2016 at 14:59


6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Can poured just the way it tells me to. So easy a caveman could do it. Clear golden pour with a nitro cream head. I did it right! Rich malt and odd hop aroma. Flavor is super sweet up front, piney hops drowned by the malt, and a cool finish. Strange, but not bad. I prefer it over the other mass produced canned nitro IPA.

Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2016 at 22:14


6.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 4

Huge, chewy head. Aroma and flavor are quite grassy. Not sure that this is really a very good idea for an IPA.

Tried on 03 Jun 2016 at 13:51


7.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Sampled from a 15 oz can this beer poured a vibrant golden color with a large very creamy orange-white head that lingered and left great lacing. The aroma was tart and citric with lemon, grapefruit, leafy and piney hops and moderate sweetness. The flavor was tart and tangy with toasted caramel, gritty and leafy hops in notes of pine, grapefruit, herbs and pepper. Long finish. Moderately full bodied. Well done.

Tried from Can on 24 May 2016 at 11:12


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

New Beer Distributors, NYC can ($3): pours nitro orange with a nitro head. Aroma is tropical fruit. Taste is rather bitter especially at the finish. Relatively smooth body. Not bad.

Tried from Can on 21 May 2016 at 14:41